These cool blue shining computer towers belong to the HoreKa supercomputer, the new high-performance computer of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It...
The earth's climate is changing at an unprecedented rate. (Image: bestdesigns / iStock)
It has been around eight years since the Intergovernmental Panel on...
There is a hailstone behind this colorfully patterned image: its unique internal crystal structure has been made visible using the latest technology. It...
Location of the fossils. (Image: Elizabeth Turner / Laurentian University)
The first animals could possibly have lived 890 million years ago: On reefs in...
Microscopic image of the fossil microbe filaments. (Image: B. Cavalazzi)
Methane-forming microbes - possibly the oldest organisms of this kind - cavorted in hydrothermal...
This brightly colored aurora shines above the telescopes of the Amundsen-Scott polar station at the South Pole. Like the northern lights, the aurora...
This orange-spotted, pointed-nosed frog belongs to a species newly discovered in the Amazon region. However, it owes its name, Synapturanus zombie, not to its...
Four Alvarez sauroids illustrate the size differences. (Image: Zhixin Han / https://www.artstation.com/xinyanjun)
While most of the dinosaurs grew larger and larger in the course...
The trunk animals once had an enormous biodiversity. (Illustration: Oscar Sanisidro)
Today only three species are left - but once there was an enormous...
The fossil beetle and the originator of the feces in which it was preserved. (Image: Qvarnström et al./ Malgorzata Czaja)
Researchers have discovered a...